ASmith

True, and Fugui destroyed his meridians anyway, I forgot that 🥶😓

Hear me out.

What if Rumu needs a compatible family member with a sword meridian to save him if he ever gives Fugui his own sword meridian back, and QJT wants to make amends for being the crappiest father ever under the sun & crappiest human on the planet?

I mean, your theory is way more plausible, but WHAT IF? ;-;

Nope. *buries head further in the sand*
If they can merge Rumu and Fugui's timelines despite the gap timeline-wise, then they can merge Fugui's timelines and do a /nearly/ sacrifice and give me a HE in this timeline too. *clutches dreams of HE tighter*.

Headcanon accepted. This drama can prise this dream from my cold, dead fists. *hugs this reality*

Briefly he gets it in Ep12, then loses it again, but he'll likely get it again any time someone forcefully injects him with some demonic energy before his evil-purifying blood neutralizes the evil energy.

As of Ep21, so far he's only got it in Ep12.

I don't think they will; they've done a pretty good job at averting such tropes so far.

I think she will gain the power of Love from the Love & Sorrows Tree, which will be equal and counter to the power of the hate tree (her powers will be more the more love there is, as long as her heart stays untainted by hatred) and she will finally gain the strength to protect what she wants to protect herself. I think the purity of her heart (even at the start, it was she who reached out to save the human first because she cares for other beings) will mean she triumphs over the white-haired version of herself and won't need saving.

Yes, and Ep17.

LOLLLLLL ur so cruel, indeed you better be hiding from them cuz they're gonna be pelting you if it does end badly and they see this.

(For me, I'm actually not totally sure it won't be a HE thought. I thought for sure starting it'd be SE b/c CY is the lead, but the opening's upbeat, and they usually tend to mirror how the ending will be in tone. And despite the multitudinous number of CYs who've died tragically, of all CY's characters, there's been none who died when they wanted to live.

All were either "I just want to finish this one thing then I'll be able to face my dead bros/family in the afterlife" or "My life and happiness is nothing as compared with the safety and happiness of the world" and did finish that thing and then died, or else they were like Sifeng wanting to live and they did live. As long as Fugui holds onto that motto of "I'll see the green mountains and the vast deserts and the snowy peaks with you, my person, by my side, with whom I am content and without whom I have a restless longing I have no name for b/c we must consult the Celestial Master for terminology not related to fighting" I have hope that will indeed happen.)

There are 2 contenders here for that title, but I agree with this statement whichever of them you mean 😂(Srry HY, I know you have ur trauma too, but ur just very biddable 😂)

I miss Qingtong and Fugui together, but I do like that she’s getting a development arc that parallels his, and he hers.

Fugui always had fighting skills but now he being forced to rely on himself is developing social skills and cooking skills and making a living skills. (And deadpan snarking skills.) She always had social skills, but now she’s being forced to rely on herself for fighting skills.

They are both going to be a beautiful match when they reunite, likely at the head of a bunch of allies they each pick up along the way, and I think his flames should be able to purge her grief tree of any evil even if she does plant one, and given he briefly turned into a dragon in the 1000 swords scene and said the dragon power knows no race, maybe she will be an immortal protector of a love tree and he will be an immortal black dragon ever able to purge any black fox hate while they both live a happy life together, I can dream lol.

For now this is my happy ending, and I want happy endings for Rumu and apprentice Foxy too 😭🥺

From my position of zero knowledge and my head firmly in the sand, totally not a tragic ending. (aka I’ve got no idea but i’m so attached to everyone, I am hoping like heck for a HE 😂)

In terms of HE, SE, technically the latter. It’s not sad for me because they strived for what they wanted to achieve with maximum effort so they die with no regrets, but it’s bittersweet and half the cast does wind up dead over the show. (CY’s three characters all die, though one of them is technically open ended.)

In terms of S&B or this, imo, this.

It is in the books, but kind of like if you gave someone an exercise manual and then as a footnote it said “buy this great new fitness pill on Amazon”; what is bad for her constitution is the daily exercise thing, but the footnote is not the daily meditation technique. (was how I read it.)

Ahh, in this case I’m not sure. If bro said you get frozen and can’t leave if you fail this test it could be that Tushan just kills would be people if it looks like that may happen? But I think Black Fox’s release is predetermined by that prophecy, so at some point she will get out, and it will be the slash issued by someone who does it, so I back her getting some superpowers to help deal with the inevitable mess 😭😭

I think he unblocked the leopard guy’s meridians and then gave him fighting tips was my reading of it?

His power limit now seems to be that he can stockpile a little spiritual energy at dawn and bottle it up to then spend, but he’d be in trouble going up against tough enemies. He’s also (based on the blood he sent into the spear) still got access to his mother’s purifying fire blood.

I think Qingtong’s books aren’t the manuals she was given. The training manuals are about the moves you practice daily which made her spit blood, whereas the sorrow and joy thing was just a reference to an ultimate move not a method of cultivation. (Like a secret way of unlocking 60 years of power type thing vs a training regime.)

The grief tree is the tree in the Black Fox’s origin story, the one that she grew from but wasn’t connected to, so it should be the love tree maybe? And they said she could get back if she grew a grief tree, but she grew a hate tree instead.

(I’m hoping she passes the test soon so she can go join the trio in the Western Regions, hopefully never to return to the crappy alliance areas ever.)

"Spit it out.
Come on.
Hurry."

^the pain of every dog owner ever.

Rumu's dad is bad for my BP lol.

Evil Dad 2: "I've been feeling so guilty I wanted to die."
Me: Go ahead and die and I'll believe you.

Evil Dad 2: "I really loved your mother."
Me: You clearly only met her after you were possessed by the Black Fox, because she wasn't with you when you were and she would be if you two loved each other, and Rumu was 10 when he left and 13 when Dragon Lady kidnapped him, and you'd tortured her mom for years. LIARRRR.

Evil Dad 2: "Live well son and by happy."
Me: As if you're not gonna out and trying to steal orbs in 2 seconds flat, lol.

At least he's in a dungeon for now?
But honestly I was hoping Dragon Lady would actually kill him.

(He's a good enough actor that I think I'd like him if he weren't so utterly scummy, I hate the character but the actor's doing well, but there's no depths to which this scumbag won't sink.)

I think there's two trees, the hate tree and the love tree, as the origin story of Black Fox was that she was unconnected to the Love Tree and could only feed off hate? If this is the Love Tree test, could be that only pure love can grow the power of the Love Tree in them?

That's high compared to mine 🤣

lmao I was cackling when he showed up, and then his face when he saw Fugui and Fugui's Done look LOLLLL

I WAS SO HOPEFUL when they walked past each other in that town ;-;

I want clingerbro cut loose so bad ;-;